" You can't walk into a store and buy an IT for $200. They are still $399 and $479."

Come on be practical. You can get one for 250$( add another 50$ for 8 gig card) anywhere with overnight shipping. That is in comparison to Iphone which comes to 430$ with taxes.

" If I had to choose between the IT and an iPhone when I was shopping for a family member or a good friend. I couldn't in my rightmind gift an N800. I'd be asked for a gift receipt to return it within 24 hours."

Yeah you are right. It is hard for the newbie to adjust to the internettablets. But i feel they should be given a choice. Yeah everyone knows that apple makes good stuff which are easy to use. But there " are other options. Just because Microsoft has been thrown down our throats since childhood we can use it very easily. If i was given a mac i would find it extremely frustrating at first but if some one helped me initially i would definitely understand how it works and will start liking it later on. The point here is that everything is a little tough for the first time. yeah admittedly linux is lot more tougher than osX. But as the preaching goes "Give a man a fish and he will eat that day. But teach him how to fish he will eat all his life."
It is the same here. If you take the time and explain for may be one day your family member will have the knowledge on what the n800 is and what it can do. Then he can decide on his own. Options are always good.

" Sure it has divx.."

Come on be practical. You are good enough to understand that playing divx on a tablet takes significant horse power. Playing divx itself is a wonderful thing. Name any mobile device which can play divx. But atleast it can play an industry standard format. I hate the apple because it plays only a proprietery format. nothing else. Imagine downloading an avi/divx/flv file from the internet. what do you do? Go back home and convert it?? That is not being mobile. Mobile means when i download a file i should be able to see it immediatley not go home and convert it again. If that is the case i can as well go home and download it directly on my pc!! Yeah it cant play high resoulution divx videos. But if you really understand that it takes a lot of processing power to run those high resoultion videos then you should be able to live with what it can do. And talking about battery. WIth a wonderful widescreen and brilliant resolution you cant expect it to run forever. But you can always buy an accesory battery and run it for 4-5 hours more. Can you do that with an apple product. I mean iam serious... why do they cripple you like that??

" Sure it has apps like ScummVM but it can't even go full screen."

Personally i never used scummvm. But from what i see. The n800 has a 4.13 screen to apple's 3.5 screen . Even without full screen the viewing area should be more than the iphone. And there are hard ware buttons which logically should be a lot more better for gaming than touch screen buttons whithout haptic feedback.

"Sure it has a mozilla browser and flash support, but it loads so slowly"

Are you sure?? Because almost all tests i have seen seem to state that the n800 performs equally/better than the iphone. And of course if you disable flash they should be significantly faster than when it is enabled. Of course i would not do it. Flash is an integral part of the web 2.0 and the option of having it is really a breakthrough!! I dont see how it is a negative. Infact it shows that the n800 is far more advanced then the itouch.